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25 of the Saddest Twitter Accounts

Twitter is a crowded place that can easily confuse beginner users and the less technologically savvy. Believe it or not, many prefer not to be a part of the online conversation.

You might remember fumbling with the service when first joining. While most overcome that confusion, some Twitter accounts never live to fulfill their potential. Users frustrated with the service just can't seem to figure out the point.

What's more perplexing is configuring your mobile device. Twitter not only sends push notifications to your phone, it can also send via SMS, among many other features. To most, the 404-04 number flashing on their phone is a no-brainer.

Then, there are those users who suspect they are being pranked or creeped on. Some even threatened to call the cops. Behold, the saddest tweets from the failed attempts of Twitter accounts.

Anyone with the Twitter handle @fart has a lot to live up to. Hendren has a huge social influence — he trolled Pitbull into getting sent to a Walmart in Alaska, with the help of his friend and Something Awful colleague David Thorpe.

Both users will leave you laughing, or simply asking "Why?" — or both.

The person behind @DadBoner — a fictional character named Karl Welzein who narrates his middle-aged chronicles one tweet at a time — was a mystery until College Humor flatly revealed it was comedian Mike Burns.

The luxury of comedy is being able to approach otherwise touchy subjects. The parody account of Helen Keller harmlessly tweets an exaggerated version of what she might have sounded like in the 21st century.

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